The referral to the criminal court of television host Jean-Marc Morandini for "corruption of a minor" was validated on Tuesday by the Paris Court of Appeal, said a judicial source, confirming information from BFMTV.
According to this source, the investigative chamber of the Court of Appeal rejected the requests for new investigative acts filed by the defense of Jean-Marc Morandini.
Sexual proposals
She therefore confirmed the correctional dismissal of the host of CNews and NRJ12 ordered by the examining magistrate in July 2020, but reversed the aggravating circumstances of incitement by a means of telecommunication and incitement to the sexual proposition on minor.
"It's a first step," commented his lawyer, Me Corinne Dreyfus-Schmidt.
"We are going to appeal on points of law on the rest".
Jean-Marc Morandini, now 56 years old, was indicted in 2016 after two young men, minors at the time of the facts they denounce, took legal action.
In the first complaint, a young man claimed that Jean-Marc Morandini had made him sexual proposals in SMS exchanges, between February and March 2013.
“Sexual harassment” and “covert work”
The second complainant, who has since withdrawn, had for his part told to have been contacted in July 2009 by the production company of Jean-Marc Morandini via a casting site for a project of remake of the film "Ken Park" of the director. American Larry Clark. He explained that he was invited, alone, to the host's home where the latter would have invited him to undress and to reproduce a masturbation scene, according to the newspaper Le Parisien.
Jean-Marc Morandini was also accused of “sexual harassment” and “hidden work” by several actors in 2016, in an article in
Les Inrocks
magazine
on naked castings.
Seized of this complaint, the Paris prosecutor's office had closed its investigation in January 2017. But the plaintiffs obtained in 2018 the resumption of the investigations by a Parisian examining magistrate.
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"Crime and various facts": A complaint filed against the emission of Jean-Marc Morandini on NRJ12
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